The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-12-09


find much sentiment in favor Of the propc-
sltion, unless the duties on the necessaries
OF life are also cut down.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE bodies of John H. Gowan and his
sixteensyear-old daughter were found at
ten O'Clock, on the night of the 29th, at
their home In Huron, OAK, frozen stiff.
From all appearances they were suf-
focated by coal gas on the night Of the
25th, as that was the last seen of them.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th q
newly-born babe was thrown from
passenger train about half a mile north of
Pine City, Mimi, and was discovered
about nine O'Clock. The child was born
naturally. It's head was bruised by the
fall, A coroner's jury was summoned.
MATILDA WOLFE, aged twenty-nine, was
arrested at Tifin o., on the 29th, for the
murder of the babe found in the chimney
OF house few days ago with its skull
| crushed. 1t is said she is the mother of
the child.
THE New York Court of Appeals has af-
lrmed the judgement of the lower court
which condemned Daniel Driscoll to death
for the murder of Beezy Garity in the
summer of 1886.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has fixed
January &C. 1855, as the day for the execu.
tion Of David L. King, convicted in Clarion
/ County of the murder of a man named
| Dinsmore.
| On the 30th an explosion of choke damp
occurred in a colliery in Poremba, Silssia,
| killing fifteen miners aud wounding
several others.
| On the morning of the 1st a general
fire alarm was sounded, calling the entire
| are department to the Strobridge Litho-
| graphing Company's building in Cincin-
natl. The flames devoured the entire
/ building, and in less than forty minutes
l the walls fell in. The loss is total, and
| will probably be 5000, OO0
! on the 1st James II. McGindley, sixty
| two years old, was sentenced in the
/ United States Court, ct Cleveland, o., to
! ten years impris onmeut for forging PEN
/ sion certificates.
On the lst lynching took place at Ala
mosa. Col, tramp named O'Brien being
the victim. He had committed an assault
/ upon young lady.
/ A RED-CHEEKED, blue-eyed, Ingenious
| looking Enslishman, named Alexander
| Taylor, twsnty-oue years old, came from
1 London to New York seven weeks ago,
/ got into the post Office service a month
/ later, and is now locked up in Ludlow
! Street jail for stealing letters from the
mails.
A New YoRK tenement house fire on the
/ AAOIuluR OF Lne ISL c0QSeu a pune hlhOu 4
| its inmates. All escaped uninjured except
Joseph Jacobs, aged five, who was burned
/ to death. The damage to the building
| amounted to 500 coo.
On the 1st a man giving the mans Of
/ Arthur O'Keefe told a story to a Phila-
| delphia salOon-keeper, in which he de-
/ oiares himself the murderer of Octavus
/ Cato. The murder was committed during
1 an election riot in the spring of 1871, and
. - - H.
/ was the leader of the colored men, caused
| great excitement O'Keefe was arres sted.
On the ID Mrs. John Evans, of Scranton,
| Pa, literally chopped the head OF her Eve
| year-old boy to pieces. She is believed
! to be insane.
OK the 2d fire in the insane asylum al
| London, Ont, destroyed the kitchen
laundry and bakery. Much confusion pre-
vailed. but the fire was soon got under
control.
Oh the ID Dan DriscolI, the Whyo gang
chief and murderer Of Bezy Garrity, wa
sentenced by Recorder Smyth IN New
York TO be hanged Friday, January ,
next.
Or the 2d Jake Nimons, colored, wa,
hanged at Mount Pleasant, s. c., for th'
murder of Mike Plottkin, an Israelit
merchant, at Hollyhid, in February last
The drop fell at six o'clock a. IN. Hii
neck was broken.
On the 2d the locomotive of a freigh
train on the Phil adelphia & Reading rail
road exploded near East Mahoney june
tion, Pa. Alexander Walker, the en-
gineer, was instantly killed, and the fire
man and two brakemen were so severel.
injured that they died while being takel
home. The victims all lived at Tamaqua
on Tie night of the 1st Jumping Dog
the Indian who fired the Cheyenn
I IN, n.l 10
captured. On the morning of the 2d b
attacked his guards and stabbed two o
them to death with pair shears an
then committed suicide.